Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 108 The Emperor Also Comes to Increase Shares ([-])

Everyone sat slumped by the roadside, everyone was dirty and unkempt, looked at the Wuzhaibao people coming and going by the roadside with awe from time to time, and talked with hopeful words from time to time, imagining Days after eating white rice every day.
It can be seen that Wuzhai Fort is indeed much better than other places, at least it looks like everyone has something to eat here.Looking at the noisy surroundings, everyone's faces became much more relaxed. It seemed that the rumors were true, and it was really right to flee famine and come to Wuzhaibao.

Whenever these refugees enter the boundary of Wuzhai Fort from various places, the first thing that makes people feel is that the atmosphere here in Wuzhai Fort is different from other places. The various irrigation water tankers made them curious, and they were relieved to see the current situation of the men and women in Wuzhaibao.

People here, no one has nothing to do, or in various farms, or in various workshops, everyone is busy non-stop. Among some people, it is obvious that they are former refugees, but now their lives Already guaranteed, the hope for the future on their faces, and the lifelessness they saw in their hometown and the towns and cities they fled through are really two worlds.

And the closer it is to Wuzhaibao, the more vibrant it is.

Right now, all the new farms outside Wuzhai Fort, the workshops in Wuzhai Fort, the vegetable gardens and orchards in Wuzhai Fort, the livestock farms and pastures in Wuzhai Fort, and the shops in Wuzhai Fort are all under construction, requiring a large number of manpower. The local population of the fort has long been recruited, and now they must be recruited from the refugees, which makes it difficult for the refugees to gather in Wuzhai Fort.

Usually they go to Wuzhai Fort for a few days at most, and then they will be recruited to work by various places in Wuzhai Fort.Compared with Wuzhaibao New Farm and various vegetable orchards in Wuzhaibao, the workshops and factories that Huang Laifu cooperates with merchants in Wuzhaibao are more willing to recruit women and children to work, because these women and children are more mature than young men. , the wages they are willing to get are lower.

Of course, Zhou's group of refugees still don't know about this situation. They wait with hope and worry for the results of their men entering Wuzhai Fort to find out.

I don't know how long it took for these people to commotion, because their own men came out of the castle, and there was a lot of shouting for father and mother.Mrs. Zhou also hugged her daughter Gu Nannan excitedly and said: "Ninny, look quickly, your father and brother are back, and your daughter has something to eat."

Amidst the voices of "Daddy, brother...", Gu Zida and his son Gu Zixiao returned to their wife Zhou and their two children with smiles on their faces.Gu Zida is 35 years old this year, but his face is full of wrinkles and his hands are covered with calluses. He has become an old man who has experienced many vicissitudes. His son Gu Zixiao is 17 years old. Like a nest.

But at this time the faces of the two men were full of excitement, Gu Zi Xiaoyuan said: "Mother, mother, both of me and father have been recruited into the farm, and we will have something to eat in the future."

Gu Zida was full of smiles, holding a few big buns in his hands. After they confirmed that they had work to do, they bought the big buns in the fort with all the copper coins they had. The buns were handed to his wife.

Seeing his daughter, Nannan, and the youngest son, Guzi Erxiao, who is only five years old, all gobbling up big buns in their hands, his wife, Zhou Shi, is also anxious to eat while taking care of the children. He said distressedly: "Eat slowly!" Eat slowly, don’t rush, don’t rush.” He asked his eldest son, Gu Zixiao, to pour some water for his mother and younger sister, and sighed, “It’s really lucky that we found a job just after we entered the castle. The family can live a good life."

Since the newly opened farms in Wuzhai Fort need a large number of manpower, and the men like Gu Zida are still quite strong, so when they entered the recruitment site in the fort, after queuing up, when it was their turn, this Ning Wu They were successfully recruited into the Wuzhai Fort Farm and assigned to Wuzhai Fort No.20 Farm.

Hearing all this, the Zhou family was naturally overjoyed. Isn't it because of all this that his family fled famine and came to Wuzhaibao?Looking at the refugees next to them, they were all in the same situation, with endless laughter.Everyone began to organize their luggage and prepare to enter the fort.

In the end, Gu Zida said: "Now my child and I have jobs to do. I heard that in the various workshops of Wuzhai Fort, some women and children are still recruited to work... Forget it, let's talk about it later..."

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The next day, in the grain drying field of the No. [-] Farm in Wuzhai Fort, accompanied by He Deli, the head of the No. [-] Farm, Gu Shibao, the deputy head of the grain team of Wuzhai Fort, and Steward Yang, were opening the roster in their hands. Below is a group of ragged refugees Tunding and their families.

These people now belong to Tun Ding and his family members of No. 20 Farm in Wuzhai Fort. Gu Zida and Zhou's family are also standing below.These people will be arranged to build farms and reclaim land in the Xinzhai area of ​​Wuzhaibao.It is also located by the Qinglian River, which is good for irrigated land.

The original ten farms in Wuzhai Fort are all located in the central area of ​​Wuzhai Fort. Here is a T-shaped plain, and the terrain is flat, suitable for large farms.But right now the T-shaped Pingchuan land in the central part has basically been reclaimed.At present, Wuzhai Fort needs to newly reclaim 20 mu of land. The new farms can only be built in Hanjialou, Sancha, Xiaohetou, Xinzhai, Xialujiao, Jingtang Temple, Baicaozhuang, and Dongxiu in Wuzhai. Zhuang, Lizhuang and other places.

In these places, compared with the central area of ​​Wuzhaibao, because many plains are divided by mountains and hills, the scale of the newly reclaimed farms cannot be as large as that in the central area, and the farms cannot be as concentrated as the original ten farms. The use of machinery cannot be as common as in the central region.

Huang Laifu plans to divide the 20 mu of newly reclaimed land into 20 farms, taking the original ten farms into 30 farms in total.Every time the tenants of a new farm are recruited, they will arrange the tenants and their families to the place to be reclaimed first. The water conservancy and irrigation systems of some farms have been built and preliminarily repaired. All preparations will be completed before the spring of next year. As for the detailed soil survey and topographic survey of these places, Huang Laifu has already sent people to complete the survey a long time ago.

Of course, the original farms in Wuzhaibao, because it is now autumn leisure, so the original villagers also have to join in the reclamation of new land, and build 20 new farms as soon as possible.

As for the management of these new farms, due to the mature operation mechanism of the ten farms in Wuzhaibao this year, personnel were selected from each farm.The former outstanding chief of each farm was promoted to the general chief of the new farm, and the former outstanding chief of the small village was promoted to the chief of the new farm.Of course, after these people were selected by lottery, the ordinary villagers or small village leaders in the original farm would also have the opportunity to be promoted.

At this time, there were 20 people in Wuzhaibao No. 300 farm in the first farm, including their family members, there were more than 1000 people.Since the new farm site has not been built yet, it is definitely not possible to live in Wuzhai Fort. Therefore, these new residents and their families can only be arranged to live and rest in the original farms of Wuzhai Fort before starting work. .

For these rookies, Tun Ding and his family members of the original farm are very enthusiastic, which naturally has a taste of showing off: "Look, how good our life is now? Joining the farm is definitely not wrong!"

And after seeing the good life of these farm tenants and their families, these later tenants and their families, the colleagues who admired them, secretly made up their minds that they must keep their positions in the future and strive for a stable iron rice bowl.

And the same as the previous choices of the villagers, the farmers of these No.20 farms, after knowing that they can have five buckets of monthly food and a series of benefits after joining Wuzhaibao military household registration, they did not join Wuzhaibao The military household registration is only available after the monthly rations. After a short period of ideological struggle, in the face of reality, most of them abandoned their original civilian household status and chose to join the Wuzhaibao military household registration.

As for the first month's treatment of these new farm settlers, since most of these original refugees arrived in Wuzhaibao with nothing, it was very difficult to live on their own. Considering this, Huang Laifu will be in the first The moon provided free meals to the villagers and their families. After the monthly rations were distributed at the end of the month, these villagers and their families would eat their own food. This decision naturally made these original refugees feel grateful to Huang Laifu, a thousand households in Wuzhaibao.

Seeing the awed and expectant eyes of the No.20 Farm Tunting and their families in Wuzhaibao below, Gu Shibao on the top can be said to be full of ambition. He has always dreamed of managing a large piece of land. Thanks to his sister, brother-in-law Huang Laifu Allowing himself to take over as the deputy head of the grain group of Wuzhaibao, and managing the various farms in Wuzhaibao, his wish has been fulfilled. These days, he has been working very happily, and he is not ashamed to ask Steward Yang for advice on all the farm affairs. In the middle of the day, he has gradually felt that things are going smoothly. He knows that he will make a career in Wuzhaibao.

(End of this chapter)